Well, yeah, Graves would be among them for sure, for that game against the Indians where he gave up five runs and one middle finger in less than an inning of work.

But, I’d have to say the worst moment I can remember was the night during a game against the Twins when Ken Griffey Jr. swung at a pitch, and had the bat slip out of his hands and fly into the seats in the front row behind the Reds’ dugout, where it conked Carl Lindner’s ten-year old granddaughter, Christine Lindner, upside the dome.

Eight stitches in the left side of her forehead. Probably not anything like what the young lady had expected to take home from that night’s game.

I seem to recall that a few days later, she met with Griffey and he autographed the bat for her. Which I suppose was the least he could do under the circumstances.

Also on the list would probably be Pete Rose getting suspended and subsequently banned from baseball, Pete Rose getting suspended for 30 days after his run-in with umpire Dave Pallone in which pallone poked Pete in the eye, and Rick Wise of the Phillies back in 1971 not only throwing a no-hitter against the Reds, but also hitting two homers in the game.

We could also do the ten funniest moments in Reds history. Anybody else out there remember Nolan Ryan’s parody of Brad Lesley on the mound during a game in ’82? That would be my #1.

HMZ

And don’t worry, we Yankee fans are used to abuse.

Last night, a Red Sox fan signed my guestbook. Loves Bubba, hates the Yanks. Apparently, Bubba has fans in Red Sox Nation who are thrilled that he’s escaped from New York. Now that he’s a Red, they can root for him without rooting for the Evil Empire.

1976 is before my time, anyway, so it’s not like I have any bad memories about it. One of my best friends is a Pirates fan who loves to talk about Maz’s game 7 walkoff homer in 1960. And I love hearing about it, actually, even though it was the Yanks who were vanquished with that swing. She was a little girl at the time, and used to walk to Forbes Field after school. They let people in free in the later innings, and school let out just in time to get in free.

It just boggles my mind. What a different world. People let in free, even during the World Series? The World Series played during the day? And a world where parents could let their little girls go to pro ball games alone. Nowadays, a lot of parents I know won’t even even bring their kids to games, because of fans behaving badly.